“In filling out the pain schedule ‘the hardest items of all have to do with love.’ Christopher and I, in leaving home, did what we did ‘for love.’ But how does it look, the love ledger, by the time you’re done? Because you are also the enemy of love and – for your children – its despoiler. … Love comes out of it with gains but also with losses. And whenever love is losing, the force of death makes gains. Divorce: the incredibly violent thing. What parent, involved in it, has not wished for the death of the once-loved one? This is universal. And this is why your heart feels gangrenous inside your chest. This is why (as I put it to myself) you want men in white to come and take you away and wash your blood.”
– Martin Amis, Experience: A Memoir
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